The Michigan Daily - Thursday, February 24, 2000 - 9A

Gymnasts prepare for home finale

1[cSorey gone
for rest of season
n NEW YORK (AP) - Marty
McSorley was suspended today for
the rest of the season for hitting
pnald Brashear in the head with his
stek - the harshest punishment in
PL history for an on-ice attack.
McSorley's suspension also would
ihclude the playoffs, but Boston,
which has won only 18 games with 23
Srmaining, will probably miss the
postseason.
The Boston enforcer was suspend-
ed indefinitely Tuesday, one day after
he swung his stick with both hands
,ainst the side of Brashear's head in
'he Bruins' 5-2 defeat to the Canucks.
A apologize to Donald Brashear
d all the fans who had to watch
,at," McSorley said Monday. "I
embarrassed my hockey team.... I got
way too carried away. It was a real
.umb play"
Cincinnati frosh
Johnson suspended
CINCINNATI (AP) - Freshman
*rMarr Johnson, third in scoring for
No. 3 Cincinnati, was suspended for
one game Wednesday for violating
NCAA rules on amateurism.
Bob Goin, Cincinnati's athletics
director, said Johnson accepted
money from his AAU basketball
coach to help pay tuition at a New
England prep school.
"This relationship occurred prior to
us knowing DerMarr," Goin said.
"This is not a university issue, this
1 not a basketball issue; this is an.
amateurism issue. There is no culpa-
bility on the part of the university."
The NCAA told the university to sit
Johnson down for a game, the
school's associate sports information
director said.
Johnson, a 6-foot-9 guard from
Riverdale, Md., has been averaging
13 points a game.
Goin said Johnson accepted about
,000 his senior year for academic
expenses not covered by his scholar-
ship to Maine Central Institute. One
year's tuition is $22,500, Goin said.
"DerMarr didn't do anything
wrong," Goin said. "He got nothing in
his pocket."
The amount Johnson will have to
pay back was being negotiated, Goin
said.
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By Rohit Bhave
Daily Sports Writer

"That year, our freshman class created
the tight-knit team atmosphere that set

the standard
After posting a national-best score of Johnson said.

231.15 against
Massachusetts last
Saturday, the Michigan To
men's gymnastics team CLIFF E
storms into Cliff Keen Who: No.
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most consistent perfor- When: 7:0
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Unfortunately for ring
Michigan State, the go dbyein
Spartans must not only face homeimee?
a defending national cham-
pion, they must contend with a No. I
team sending off their seniors in the sea-
son's final home meet.
For seniors Ethan Johnson, Lalo Haro,
Adam Hattersly and Jesse Coleman, this
is the final home meet of their Michigan
careers. The close-knit senior class com-
prises head coach Kurt Golder's first
recruiting class at Michigan. Arriving on
campus on the heels of a dismal 0-11
mark the previous season, the 1996
recruiting class constituted the frame-
work for recent Wolverine success.

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class says its final
defendingnational
Michigan's last
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Scholarship in

for the years to come,"
"We dreamed greatness,
and then we made it
happen"~
Golder's prize catch
of that season was Lalo
Haro, from Puebla, Pue,
Mexico. A five-time
Mexican National all-
around champion, Haro
became the first
Michigan star in the
Golder era. This year, he
won the Newt Loken
ntribute to his dedication

Women's tra

By James Mercier
For the Daily

to Michigan gymnastics.
Haro has helped the Wolverines most
this year by solidifying their weaknesses
on high bar, maintaining a meet average
of 9.642 with a season high of 9.8
against Iowa. in last year's NCAA
championships, he posted a 100 percent
hit rate on five events and racked up a
9.775 on floor exercise.
Throughout his Michigan career,
Haro has proven to be a clutch per-
former, especially during the Big Ten 1
ick ai*ms for
"We think we can win, but there are
probably four other teams in the confer-
ence that could win as well," junior
sprinter Ashlic Wilbon said. "We'll have
to have a lot of great performances."
"In all my time here at Michigan, this
is the most competitive the conference
has been," Henry said. "We could end up
anywhere from first to fifth. The top
five teams could only be separated by
five to 10 points"
Last week, Michigan followed a low-
intensity week of practice with a domi-
nating performance at home in the
Silverstone Invitational, a tune-up event
for the Big Ten Championships. Even
though many Wolverines did not com-
pete in their normal events, the team still
ran away with it, taking first place in
nine events.
Although the competition in the

and NCAA championships.
Going into March, peak perfor-
mances will be at a premium for the
Wolverines.
As Michigan heads into the last three
meets of the dual meet season, it will
continue to search for its best postseason
line-up.
Last week, Daniel Diaz-Luong pow-
ered the Wolverines on pommel horse
with a 9.875, but the real boost will be
felt in his top two events, vault and high
bar.
It remains to be seen whether Diaz-
Luong can maintain his mental focus in
subsequent meets, but his teammates
attest to his mental toughness.
"He is one of the strongest people
mentally I've ever seen," junior co-cap-
tain Justin Toman said.
As they kick their skills into high gear,
the Wolverines are not merely compet-
ing against their opponent, they are com-
peting against their own lofty standards.
"There is no way anyone on the team
is going to let the Spartans come into
Keen and push us around. This is a meet
I feel we all want to dominate from
beginning to end,"junior Tim Dehr said.
Silverstone Invitational was not strong,
the event provided Michigan's team with
a chance to improve upon season-best
times, which affect seeding in the Big
Ten Championships.
"We came out of it unscathed,"
Henry said. "That was the most
important thing, with the Big Ten
meet only a week away. We also had
some runners post personal bests. You
want to come away from a meet with
positives, and we did.
"The event helped our seeding for
this weekend - we're seeded well.
Our performances put us in a good
position, but we still have to per-
form. We've had a successful sea-
son, but this is the big show.
Everything we've done won't mean
anything if we can't perform when
the curtain comes up," Henry said.

Sega

study aid ever created,

If the Michigan women's track and
field team was getting used to relaxing,
a glance at the schedule must have felt
like a cold shower. A red-letter date
appeared - Feb. 26-27, the date of the
Big Ten Indoor Championships in
Minneapolis, which meant that it was
time to get to work.
Yesterday's practice at the Indoor
Track Building had a different feel to it
than earlier workouts.
"I expect the conference meet to be a
dogfight," Michigan coach James Henry
said. "We've practiced accordingly this
week. The intensity level went up."
The Wolverines, who are two-time
defending Big Ten champions, know that
a third straight title will not come easily.

At this point in my college career,
I'd like to think I've pretty much
mastered the art of procrastina-
tion. I can whip out papers the day they're
due with the greatest of ease (although
my professors might dispute that). I have
thoroughly convinced myself that the
relaxation I derive from not taking notes
today is worth the certain stress it causes
me down the line. And I am a firm
believer that written material is not truly
digested unless it is read for the first time
just hours before the exam.
I can even dupe myself into looking at
my deficiency as a sign of mental forti-
tude - hey, I just do my best work with
my back against the wall. But let's be
honest - my deft ability to procrastinate
results from a fierce sense of laziness
and not much else.
There has been one development that
has helped me wrap up my collegiate
procrastinating career as strongly as I
started it - video games. Specifically,
the Sega Dreamcast.
I've always been a veritable video
game addict. I was weaned on video
games, playing Pac Man and Frogger on
an Atari 800 for hours when other kids
my age were developing motor skills. I
just recently caught up to everyone.
And with spring break nearly upon us,
it's making me think about as clearly as
one of Mike Tyson's opponents at the
post-fight press conference. So I've
spent a lot of time surrendering to the
world of video games, which keeps my
mind free from worrying about things
like why my parents sent me to this ven-
erable institution in the first place.
The Sega Dreamcast is the Vince
Carter of the electronic gaming industry.
Dreamcast burst on the scene earlier this
year, taking the world (or at least my
house) by storm and redefining the prac-
tice of procrastination everywhere.
Sega's newest development was a tri-
fle saddening, because it represented a
changing of the guard. I had previously
honed my time-wasting skills on a Sony
PlayStation, which became a high-tech
paperweight uponi the conception of the

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Dreamcast. With the development of
games like "NBA 2K" - where the
players look identical to their profession-
al namesakes and move just as fluidly -
the new system brings back memories of
another implement of procrastination by
the same company, the Sega Genesis.
If the Dreamcast is Vince Carter, then
the Genesis is more like Hakeem
Olajuwon. The Dream was in his prime
in the mid-90's, but he cah still come
strong from time to time, so you can't
completely write him off. I can credit the
Genesis with helping me through my
formative years as a budding procrasti-
nator. When I had that geometry exari
during my freshman year of high school,
I was spending a lot more time learning
that Mario Lemieux's 'fake-right-shoot-
left' move would literally score every
time in "NHL '92" than calculating the
volume of a conic section.
On another historic note, I can trace
my development as a college procrasti-
nator to a single event involving the
Genesis early in my freshman year. I had
an exam at nine o'clock the next morn-
ing - you know, the 'high-school-start
ed-at-eight-so-class-every day-at-nine-
should-be-cake' logic - and was fairly3
worried about it. But after five or six
games in my hall's "College Football
'97" tournament, it was soon daylightj
and I was about as prepared for my examt
as Jamal Crawford is for the NBA. 2
But I aced the test, a landmark occur-
rence which vaulted me into the ranks oC
procrastinators everywhere. All of a sud
den there was no stopping me (at least,"
until I tried a similar technique with a
non-intro class).
But as I near the very scary prospect-
of graduation, my addiction to video
games is beginning to trouble me.
I mean, honestly, I can't play
Dreamcast for the rest of my lifer
Because I'm sure they'll come out with:
something better in a few years.
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M' gymnasts hit road over break

By Sarah Ensor
Daily Sports Writer

After compiling one of its best per-
formances of the season at Georgia last
weekend, the No. 2 Michigan women's
gymnastics team will look to continue
its road success as it travels across the
country during spring break.
While other students will use the
vacation as a time to relax on the beach,
the Wolverines will spend the week fac-
ing three top-25 opponents. They begin
on Saturday with a home meet against
No. 20 Maryland and then will hit the
road to face No. 23 Arizona in Tucson
on March 3 and No. 4 UCLA in the
Bruin Classic in Los Angeles on March
5.
In addition to the high caliber of com-
petition, one of the most important
aspects of this trip is the experience it

provides. Many of the current
Wolverines have never participated in an
extended road trip, so it will serve both
as a learning experience 4nd as prepara-
tion for the upcoming Big Ten and
NCAA championships.
"We right now are just trying to con-
centrate on getting some good road
scores,' Michigan coach Bev Plocki
said. "When we go on the road for
spring break, it's difficult from the
standpoint that we're on the road for a
week, but that's kind of what it's like for
national championships, too."
This spring break trip couldn't come
at a better time. The Big Ten
Championships are only three weeks
away, and the match-ups with Arizona
and UCLA are Michigan's last road
meets before postseason competition.
The Wolverines will look to perfect the
final details of their overall performance

and will aim to familiarize themselves
with life on the road.
"It's a great opportunity," sophomore
Amy Kuczera said. "It gives us three
more opportunities before Big Tens,
regionals, and nationals come up to fix
up everything and be well prepared."


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SOME FUN!
The Office of New Student Programs & Student
Activities and Leadership
are now recruiting for the
Social Mentoring Program
We are seeking to hire two people to coordinate the Social
Mentoring program next fall. This program begins when fresh-
men arrive on campus and continues through the first six
weeks of school. It is designed to provide new students with
an upper class mentor who will help introduce them to the UM
social scene in a safe and healthy way.
This program is targeted towards new students who want to
make their transition to college without alcohol. The Social
Mentoring program will facilitate opportunities to meet other
students making similar choices, immediately creating a social
network on campus.
There are two positions available:
Project Manager
. Oversees the details of the Social Mentoring Program
* $12.00 per hour
* Some hours during Winter Term
* 20hours per week during the summer
Qualifications include strong organizational skills, supervisory
experience, understanding about new students.

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